The president showed a more confrontational tone toward special counsel Robert Mueller, prompting urgent warnings from senators not to undermine the probe into possible Russian election interference.2677

The Federal Reserve has raised short-term rates five times since late 2015, but banks largely stood pat on deposit rates for rank-and-file customers. Now, with the Fed expected to lift rates again this week, there are signs this could change.

Facebook ignited a firestorm over how it manages third-party access to its users’ information, after it said a firm with ties to the 2016 Trump campaign improperly kept data for years despite saying it had destroyed those records.50

Congress will enter its last major fiscal battle before November’s midterms this week, as lawmakers prepare to debate a mammoth spending bill that offers them the last chance to settle dozens of long-running fights.

Six months after Hurricane Maria barreled ashore, economic activity in Puerto Rico has picked up, but businesses large and small are struggling amid electricity woes and an exodus of residents. Electricity woes continue to plague the island, where 91% of power generation has been restored but the grid is prone to sudden outages.

Newell Brands Inc. has agreed to nominate four independent board directors chosen by Carl Icahn and consider selling more of its businesses as part of a truce with the activist investor, the consumer-goods company said Monday.

A lawyer for Steve Wynn said he recently reported a woman to the FBI after she threatened to go public about the casino mogul’s alleged sexual misconduct against her, which had prompted a 2006 settlement, court records indicate.

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Google and Facebook have dominated the U.S. digital advertising market for years, but new data show signs that platforms like Amazon and Snapchat are chipping away at the digital duopoly’s market share.

Grubhub and its rivals say they need to get bigger to cut delivery fees that are sometimes higher than the price of a burger and fries. That is partly the goal of the expanded partnership that Grubhub and Yelp plan to announce on Monday.

The women were concerned about allegations circulating internally of inappropriate workplace behavior by some men and drew up the survey to gather information about these issues, people familiar with the matter said.

For Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, having fended off an unwanted takeover from Broadcom just leaves more headaches, from customer disputes to unhappy shareholders to a new long-shot takeover bid from his former boss.

Larry Nassar’s longtime boss at Michigan State University told a group of students and administrators in the fall of 2016 that he did not believe female patients who alleged repeated sexual abuse by the former U.S. national gymnastics team doctor.

Small businesses largely steered clear of real-estate investments during the heady days of soaring rents and prices for Manhattan retail properties. Now that prices are coming down, some are exploring the possibility of owning their own space.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government must cooperate with investigations into the suspected nerve agent attack on British soil, European Union foreign ministers urged, as the U.K. tries to drum up international support for a tough line against Moscow.

The European Union has agreed on the broad terms of Britain’s two-year transition deal after leaving the bloc in March 2019, according to an EU official familiar with the discussions, but Ireland remains “an issue.”